Last week the US government a national program frozen So that the financing of 5 billion US dollars for the construction of the building in the infrastructure for electric vehicles was sent, whereby the goal was to build half a million new EV charging devices in the United States by 2030.
The funding freezer is the latest in a flood of bad news that is beaten in the electric vehicle sector and the wider car sector. President Donald Trump signed one in just his first month of office Executive order Goal on “Terminat (ING) … The mandate of the electric vehicleAnd consider high tariffs against Canadians, Mexicans and European Were. Together these movements could Devastate the global auto industry.
The EV charging area has confused the still suitable charging industries in confusion. Legal experts say the move Could be against the law. Nevertheless, industry observers say that the break when financing is probably not a fate for the country’s charge infrastructure – or the wider goal of bringing more people into electric cars.
“The industry is not dependent on it,” says Loren McDonald, chief analyst at Paren, an EV company company for data analysis. “You still build charging infrastructure.”
Confusion of the financing
The three -year program of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) is financed by the federal government. However, it is managed by individual states, which means that state officials are responsible for planning charging facilities and write contracts with companies to build and operate companies.
Some of these state officials still evaluate what the financing freezing means for them. The state of Ohio has built 19 stations with NEVI financing – a third of the 57 already opened nationwide. The state is “working on understanding the specific financing effects of the new guidelines how it applies to our remaining contractual projects”, Breanna Badanes, spokesman for the Ohio Dots Charging Initiativewrote to Wired in a statement.
In general, the states seem to believe that they can continue with projects in which contracts have already been signed, but can no longer sign, even if they have already received the money for construction. “What will happen are everyone who has currently been concluded, the signed contracts that are still financed” said Fox Business Over the weekend. He admitted that killing the NEVI program would require an act of the congress. However, he said that no financing would be published until the transport department re -evaluates the program. This process will probably be completed for a few more months.
The price of the delay?
In the short term, the delay in NEVI financing for EV drivers can hardly be noticeable. On the one hand, Nevi-financed chargers are “a decline in the bucket” of the burgeoning load infrastructure of the country, says McDonald, the analyst. He estimates that the electrical fast charging connections financed by NEVI will make up about 10 or 15 percent of the 16,000 ODD that will come online in the USA this year. When states with websites that already have contracts go through, 750 to 850 of the 1,000 planned NEVI locations are opened, says McDonald.
On the other hand, the NEVI program was developed for the construction of chargers that are not always near the place where most EV owners live. The rules of the program (which could now be changed after it is checked) presented that the money was used to build stations all 50 miles along the high route of the national highway. The idea was that the government would subsidize public fasting in places where the market may not support it to enable long -distance trips. But most people do not take daily road trips, so that they may not immediately notice the design delay. Those who Do Announcement could be rural drivers.
